Directed by Deborah Perkin, Bastards is about a Muslim mum who fights family, tradition and the law to give her illegitimate daughter a future. It’s uplifting, funny, moving – and shows the inside of a Moroccan court for the first time on film. Released in UK cinemas last year, it won high praise from film critics like […]

Nour Festival is a festival dedicated to the best of contemporary arts and culture from the MENA region. Events take place in different venues across the Royal Borough of Kensington and Chelsea. The Festival features different arts forms ranging from theatre, cinema, literature, to dance, music and even food. There are also many exhibitions, workshops, […]

English Chamber Orchestra presents The Spirit of the Moors On Thursday 15 October, a unique British Moroccan collaboration will take place to celebrate the talents of Moroccan musicians in London. The brilliant young Moroccan pianist, Dina Bensaïd, makes her London debut performing music by the internationally acclaimed Moroccan composer, Ahmed Essyad. The concert includes the […]

As part of this year’s Shubbak Festival the Crossway Foundation brings you an evening of thought-provoking films from the Gulf. This screening will include exciting new satirical shorts from groups such as Meqdad Al-Kout (Kuwait) and Misfitz Comedy (Bahrain), many of which have never before been translated into English. Following the screening there will be a Q+A with […]

What actually makes us happy with our careers I came across a report, of a year-ago, published by Frederick Herzberg (an American Psychologist, and College of Utah Professor) named “One More Time: How Can You Motivate Workers.” Being a fresh professional, simply receiving my job off the ground, the study’s topic matter was intriguing in […]

In an extensive original introduction, Karim Bejjit narrates the various stages of the colonial venture in Tangier, and critically analyses both the British historiography and current scholarship on the subject. He provides an alternative reading of the Tangier episode, emphasising the Moroccan point of view and the significance of the local political agency. This critical […]